So I bought a cheapo USB modem/fax on Ebay. I have to admit, that I didn’t really expect it to work with my Fedora 12 Linux machine, but it was actually detected as ACM modem, and /dev/ttyACM0 appeared. lsusb -v reveals it’s identified as ID 0572:1329 Conexant Systems (Rockwell), Inc. Note to self: This is [...]
While the PCI Express standard is impressive in that it actually makes sense (well, most of the time) there is a pretty annoying thing about read requests reordering. By the way, I talk about TLP packet formation in general in another post. In section 2.4.1 of the PCIe spec 1.1, it says that read requests [...]
Finding the maximal payload manually The truth is, there is no need to do this manually. lspci does the work for us. But looking into the configuration table once and for all helps demystifying the issue. So here we go. According to the PCIe spec (section 7.8), the max_payload_size the card can take is give [...]
The textbook says, that if one wants to compile a module against a kernel, the headers must be there. Those who run distribution kernels are urged to apt-get or yum-install something, and their trouble is over. People like me, who cook their own food and download vanilla kernels, need to handle this themselves. In the [...]
It may look like a stupid idea, since the CRC32 has been implemented in some Perl modules which can be downloaded from CPAN. But all functions I found involve an XS part, which essentially means that a compilation of C code has to take place during the installation. In other words, these modules can’t be [...]
It all starts with this: I’m not ready to return from my character device’s release() method before I know that the underlying hardware has acknowledged the shutdown. It is actually expected to do so quickly, so I relied on a wait_event_interruptible() call within the release method to do the short wait for the acknowledge. And [...]